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...difficult to pretend that you are an athlete. Some of us make a career out of it. And while you may not impress your fellow newcomers, if anything you'll be characterized, and that's half the battle won in the terrorism of the freshman identity crisis...
...Douglas Fraser, invoking some class-struggle rhetoric that sounded like the 1930s, resigned from the semiofficial Labor-Management Group. That body was set up under Gerald Ford as a forum for corporate and union leaders to meet privately, debate common problems and advise the White House. Said Fraser: "Why pretend that labor and management in this country are sitting down and discussing the great issues of the day and that they have something in common when they don't?" The auto worker boss also declared that labor has become so disenchanted with the Democratic Party that there is talk...
...Number of KKK members, of course, is secret. No wonder. Most of these Klansmen are older men, and the Klan's recent attempts to pretend that it is a political lobby like any other have been a transparent failure. "Let's face it," Wilkinson later tells me privately. "We had a couple of million members in the '20s, but we haven't got anywhere near that now. We just want to get the same attention from the press that the blacks...
Most of the people on the kibbutz are weak and tired this morning because of last night's attack, but everyone tries to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary has happened. In a way, nothing has. The battle was business as usual. Obviously, the kibbutzniks are fighting a psychological as well as a military war with the Palestinians...
...very devilishness of the complexities, however, forces Government to keep trying new ways to tame inflation. No policymaker can pretend to himself any longer that it will subside on its own, and every national poll identifies inflation as the issue that most worries voters...